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Holy poo poo, Aspen is still in business?
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Teenage Fansub posted:Ha! Scott Lobdell has the task of turning Aspen Comics legit next week. poo poo. Do I collect single issues or wait for trades?
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Apr 20, 2017 22:22
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You guys will see the light when this comic pays for my retirement.
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Apr 20, 2017 22:26
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Should I catch up on all the Executive Assistant stuff first?
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Apr 20, 2017 22:30
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Roth posted:You guys will see the light when this comic pays for my retirement. Are they doing a hologram cover or a chromium gatefold
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Apr 20, 2017 22:37
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Aspen comics is gonna be the new Image. I can just feel it.
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Apr 20, 2017 22:55
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Madkal posted:You know, every few months or so we do these "recommend a Batman story" thing and while there is nothing wrong with these lists, I am also kind of curious about some anti-recommend Batman lists. Which stories should people avoid and why. Avoid Hush if you're already familiar with the ins and outs of Batman and cape book story structure. It makes a half-decent "baby's first Batman," but the more comics you read, the more glaring its faults become. Also, I can't believe I'm the first to mention Kevin Smith's Cacophony and Widening Gyre. If you like yourself, don't read them. In fact, you'd be better off never reading a comic with Smith's name on it. For a man who loves comics in general, and Batman in particular, he is really loving bad at writing them.
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Apr 21, 2017 00:14
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I feel like could top basically any bad Batman comic with a random page from Dark Knight Strikes Again
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Apr 21, 2017 00:38
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haitfais posted:Avoid Hush if you're already familiar with the ins and outs of Batman and cape book story structure. It makes a half-decent "baby's first Batman," but the more comics you read, the more glaring its faults become. I read Cacophony and it was dire, and have heard only bad things about Widening Gyre, but I have also heard good things about his Green Arrow run and I seem to be one of the only people on this forum who liked his Daredevil run.
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Apr 21, 2017 00:41
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Which one is the Kevin Smith story where Batman pisses himself.
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Apr 21, 2017 00:46
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Madkal posted:I read Cacophony and it was dire Are you also a poet but don't even know it?
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Apr 21, 2017 00:51
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Ghostlight posted:Which one is the Kevin Smith story where Batman pisses himself. Widening Gyre. It's worth reading about, just not worth reading. 
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Apr 21, 2017 00:54
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Madkal posted:I read Cacophony and it was dire, and have heard only bad things about Widening Gyre, but I have also heard good things about his Green Arrow run and I seem to be one of the only people on this forum who liked his Daredevil run. I used to speak highly of Quiver and Guardian Devil, but it turns out that was mostly because I was fairly young when I read them. I revisited them when my podcast did a feature episode on Smith a couple years ago, and they didn't hold up at all. They're better than his Batman stuff (his most recent burrito fart is better than his Batman stuff,) but still really sloppy. It's really obvious that they're some of his earliest comic work, because they're hopelessly, hilariously dependent on narration boxes. Especially Guardian Devil. Drawing from memory, so there may be some exaggeration here, but there were pages in that book with more caption boxes than art. Apart from writing narration like Claremont wrote dialogue in the 70s, his work is guilty of haphazard story structure, inconsistent characterisation, and plot twists so far out of left field that they abruptly change the very genre of the stories, typically in the final chapter. None of that explains his Batman books, which are so completely hosed that I can't begin to explain them.
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Apr 21, 2017 01:00
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haitfais posted:I used to speak highly of Quiver and Guardian Devil, but it turns out that was mostly because I was fairly young when I read them. I revisited them when my podcast did a feature episode on Smith a couple years ago, and they didn't hold up at all. They're better than his Batman stuff (his most recent burrito fart is better than his Batman stuff,) but still really sloppy. It's really obvious that they're some of his earliest comic work, because they're hopelessly, hilariously dependent on narration boxes. Especially Guardian Devil. Drawing from memory, so there may be some exaggeration here, but there were pages in that book with more caption boxes than art. Guardian devil is also super remember this awesome story? Wasn't it awesome and here it is again!! Also lets include AIDS!
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Apr 21, 2017 01:23
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Jesus, this sounds like a nightmare. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/04/20/archie-comics-artist-refused-entry-usa-canada-sketches/
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Apr 21, 2017 01:47
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So my students are writing short plays. They can basically write anything they want; the content doesn't matter. They're just learning how to write scripts for a bigger project we're doing in a couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm getting pretty some nerdy poo poo like Japan ceasing all exporting of anime which leads to a war between the US and Japan. But the best so far is Suicide Dogs: A story in which the members of the Suicide Squad are captured and their dogs must save them. The dogs are named Harley Quinn Dog, Deadshot Dog, and Captain Boomberang Dog. Still less nerdy than the play about Sonic trapped on Cybertron. Timeless Appeal fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 02:10
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Timeless Appeal posted:So my students are writing short plays. They can basically write anything they want; the content doesn't matter. They're just learning how to write scripts for a bigger project we're doing in a couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm getting pretty some nerdy poo poo like Japan ceasing all exporting of anime which leads to a war between the US and Japan. Suicide Dogs is amazing and I want to read that play.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:14
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Come on, kids, work for your dog puns. Harleash Quinn, Floyd Gnawton, Captain Fetch!
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Apr 21, 2017 02:17
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Gaz-L posted:Captain Fetch! loving genius.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:30
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haitfais posted:loving genius. Stop trying to make Fetch happen.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:37
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X-O posted:Jesus, this sounds like a nightmare. Border Patrol's really power tripping. Turned away because no work visa for sketches.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:47
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OhFunny posted:Border Patrol's really power tripping. Dude, we gotta protect the US from those filthy snowbacks who are stealing our jobs.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:55
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I would've gone with Captain Bonerang.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:11
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Ghostlight posted:I would've gone with Captain Bonerang. I try to think as little as possible about Jai Courtney's boner.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:11
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You're missing out.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:12
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Timeless Appeal posted:So my students are writing short plays. They can basically write anything they want; the content doesn't matter. They're just learning how to write scripts for a bigger project we're doing in a couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm getting pretty some nerdy poo poo like Japan ceasing all exporting of anime which leads to a war between the US and Japan. The war was to make sure all anime stays in Japan , right?
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Apr 21, 2017 05:27
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After several weeks without updating I just now found out that Comics Alliance is shut down. Please tell me Chris Sims series on Power Rangers and Sonic will be continuing somewhere else.
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Apr 21, 2017 07:36
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This is doing the rounds at the moment. Not necessarily new to a lot of people here but from the part I've read it's a pretty good summary of the situation. https://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/855209139001282561 Rhyno posted:Read them all as some are incredible and some are incredibly bad and YOU GET TO DECIDED WHICH ARE WHICH Trip report soon!
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Apr 21, 2017 10:51
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OhFunny posted:Border Patrol's really power tripping. That's seriously messed up. And it's Giselle Lagace and now how are we supposed to get our softcore teenage vampire porn? joehonkie fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 12:22
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X-O posted:Jesus, this sounds like a nightmare. This doesn't surprise me, if you are an artist in Canada, you p much have to lie to board patrol because they are all "WARRIORS" protecting "AMERICAN INTERESTS". I teach and perform improv in Canada and that means, it is professionally beneficial for me to go to improv festivals (where you don't make money, unless you run a workshop, but even then not even enough to declare on your taxes) I know groups of people who have been flagged on entry because they are going to perform a free show at a festival they didn't have a work permit. When a group of friends crossed over the boarder patrol thought that one brown guy in the car was suspicious, googled them, found their improv teams facebook page, turned them away because they posted they were going to an american fest. Where they aren't paid. Bands are ten times as frustrating. When I played when I was young, my mom would drive our gear claiming she was selling it (no one suspects a 45+ white women) and then we would meet up with her and move the gear into the car. Apparently it was easier to cross pre W Bush era but when they changed immigration to "Keep out the mexicans" they really just kept out Canadian tourists, artists, and skilled labour. Y'all countries hosed up
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Apr 21, 2017 15:44
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Just don't want those bad canucks stealing our jobs and bringing their syrup.
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Apr 21, 2017 19:52
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Dark Horse sucks, their new edition of Ghost in the Shell still has the sex scene edited out. For gently caress's sake, Saga is a best seller and has graphic sex scenes, Sunstone is a best seller and is just porn, but Dark Horse doesn't think Americans can handle half a page of gay sex
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Apr 21, 2017 19:54
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Guy Goodbody posted:Dark Horse sucks, their new edition of Ghost in the Shell still has the sex scene edited out. I only just learned about this thanks to your post and am now sincerely sad about my hardcover not having (:NSFW:) hot technobabble sex that makes Batou's responses to his intrusion only funnier.
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Apr 21, 2017 20:21
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Because of two stupid pages you'd probably have to keep it bagged or behind counters in stores. Other than not doing it digitally, I can't really blame them for not bothering with an adults only edition.
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Apr 21, 2017 20:31
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Teenage Fansub posted:Because of two stupid pages you'd probably have to keep it bagged or behind counters in stores. Those two pages are all that Sunstone is, and Sunstone isn't bagged or behind counters. Saga has tons of full frontal nudity and actual graphic penetrative sex, and Saga isn't bagged or behind counters
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Apr 21, 2017 20:37
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Guy Goodbody posted:Those two pages are all that Sunstone is, and Sunstone isn't bagged or behind counters.
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Apr 21, 2017 20:42
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We can all agree they're reprinting it because of the movie, right? It's a mass market movie, so it makes sense to print the mass market version. Saga and Sunstone would be hugely impacted in cut back Teen rated versions. The books are noted for that stuff and it's intrinsic in the way two pages of pornography really isn't to GITS (I'm guessing.) It's definitely censorship, but I can't blame them. I think it's completely understandable to not put it out unless there's a real audience for a second special version (again, except in digital form where the extra cost would probably be negligible.)
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Apr 21, 2017 20:50
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It's just another example of how hosed and terrible Dark Horse's manga department is. They've left Battle Angel Alita out of print for over a decade, and they keep licensing manga, realeasing a few volumes, and then just giving up. They did the first 14 volume of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and then just stopped, started rereleasing it in 3 in1 omnibuses, and then just stopped after the fourth one. They had abandoned Drifters and Blood Blockade Battlefront until they got anime series that drove up interest again. And they charge fifteen dollars per volume for Berserk. Dark Horse is bad
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Apr 21, 2017 21:11
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They've gotta make money somehow without Star Wars, I guess. But not releasing comics is also a lovely way to make money
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Apr 21, 2017 21:12
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Doctor Spaceman posted:This is doing the rounds at the moment. Not necessarily new to a lot of people here but from the part I've read it's a pretty good summary of the situation. This is fantastic and pretty much everyone should read it.
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